Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
Graham County, Arizona, has about 40,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Graham County Sheriff's Office and three city agencies. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the County Attorney files charges, a case in the Graham County Superior Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Graham County public records, Arizona arrest records, Arizona inmate search and Arizona criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Graham County
The Graham County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Graham County. It reported 411 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside three of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Safford, 10,257 residents: 472 arrests reported for 2019.
- Thatcher, 5,627 residents: 154 arrests reported for 2024.
- Pima, 3,148 residents: 179 arrests reported for 2019.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Graham County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Graham County Sheriff's Office: 411 for 2025, 651 for 2024, 694 for 2023, 647 for 2022, 517 for 2020 and 532 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Thatcher: 154 for 2024, 106 for 2023, 132 for 2022 and 150 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
- Safford: 472 for 2019.
- Pima: 179 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 805 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 805 in 2024 against 800 in 2023, up 0.6 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Graham County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Graham County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 140 people, down from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 365 beds, and it ran at 37 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Graham County Sheriff's Office at graham.az.gov/DocumentCenter/View/502/Booking-Roster-PDF (page title: 9-2-24 | Inmate List), 921 W Thatcher Boulevard Safford, AZ 85546, a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry lists its inmates at corrections.az.gov/inmate-data-search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Graham County
An arrest in Graham County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Graham County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; Public Access to Court Information, the Arizona Judicial Branch's free statewide case search; the Maricopa and Pima county courts run their own, which shows whether charges were filed.
Arizona does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Arizona Department of Public Safety goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Graham County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the Arizona Public Records Law the agency must answer promptly, with no fixed number of days in the statute, and it may charge the cost of copies, and more for commercial requests.
- An arrest by the Graham County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Safford, Thatcher or Pima: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- Your own statewide record: a Record Review Packet, fingerprint-based, from the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Graham County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the three cities in Graham County: Safford, Thatcher and Pima.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Graham County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Graham County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Graham County each year?
The Graham County Sheriff's Office reported 411 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Graham County sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 805 between them.
Where are people arrested in Graham County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Graham County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Graham County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Graham County Superior Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Arizona Department of Public Safety is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Arizona Public Records Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Graham County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Graham County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Arizona Public Records Law the answer is due promptly, with no fixed number of days in the statute.
Is this the official Graham County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.